Back when there it wasn't as easy to move around, community rabbis had a decent ability to leverage "community sanctions" on people like this to "encourage" them to do the right thing. But it's so easy to move around now - and there are so many different sects of the religion - that all someone has to do to avoid sanctions is move or even just change rabbinical leadership. Btw, this is related to those crazy stories that have been in the news recently about those rabbis that head hired hoodlums to beat up several men who'd been refusing to grant gets. Not saying I necessarily agree with the approach, but it's an indication of how desperate the situation can get.

You have a problem when laws made 2000+ years ago to protect children go unchanged despite very big changes in society.At that time, a man couldn't disappear, because how far could you get on a donkey? If a man in town refused to give his wife a get, then the other men in town had a talk with him.

If he continued to refuse, the next talk was a little less talking and a little more convincing... done deal.

I thought that a get that was forced out of the husband isn't valid?
triL, I didn't know that about your husband's family. That really is horrible.
What could he possibly have had to say for himself when he came back?

Shazam, True. Seems that line between "convincing" and "forcing" can get a bit blurry in modern society.

In the old days, as TriL noted, it wasn't as hard to "convince" without holding a man down and forcing him because mobility was so limited and people's standard of living was so dependent upon being an accepted part of the community.

yup. So now, Yaakov sees him if he's sent to Los Angeles (which has happened a couple times)He was here for 3 days four years ago, and we got together a couple times.Other than that, he sends money for the kids' birthdays, and we send him thank-you emails, sometimes with pictures.

Yaakov feels like he doesn't want to be a jerk and cut him off, so he doesn't.On the other hand, he's not going to make any effort for a relationship at this point. He has a mother who drove him crazy but does love him as much as she is capable of, a wife who loves him, kids who love him, and in-laws who treat him like family.

He's secure enough to be able to maintain a casual and polite relationship with the jerk who ditched him, his mom, and his sisters.

DropBox has added a black woman to their board of directors -- leftists lose
their minds.

The black woman in question happens to be Condolezza Rice, who we know doesn't
stay locked inside a "binder full of women" like the commie leftoids would
prefer her to.

This proves that the Brendan Eich debacle wasn't specifically about gay marriage.
It demonstrates the emergence of a liberal mafia who is now out to sabotage
the careers of successful and prominent conservatives.

It demonstrates the emergence of a liberal mafia who is now out to
sabotage the careers of successful and prominent conservatives.

since firefox is so dependent on the goodwill of the open-source community
for their livelihood - both in terms of code contributions and cash contributions,
it stands to reason that their hiring and human resources ethic should reflect
the prevailing sensibilities of the open source faithful, which tends to fall
somewhere on a spectrum between libertarian and social-liberal. that means
tolerance for homosexuals. there might be legitimate concerns about the kind
of work environment that Eich was creating.

It isn't as if Eich was running around shouting "Mozilla hates fags dot com!!!1"

He privately made a donation to a political cause a number of years ago.
By all accounts, he did not let his personal feelings have any effect on
how he treated people inside the organization. It wasn't an issue until some
liberal demagogue dug it up and turned it into a public circus, which resulted
in a public stake-burning at the hands of the liberal mafia.

Now who exactly is "intolerant" here?

By the way, Firefox is only slightly dependent on the goodwill of the open
source community. The vast majority of their funding still comes from one
source: Google.